I used to think I was the strangest person in the world.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

-- Bertrand Russell

What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.

-- Thomas Hobbes

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

I came to Russia knowing absolutely nothing.

-- Catherine II of Russia

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

-- Jawaharlal Nehru